The LA Kings offensive struggles continue AND we are now all holding are breath for an injury update on goalie Darcy Kuemper, the one player the Kings can not afford to lose. That and more on this edition of Locked on LA Kings.
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25 Comments
With the way the season is going and now the injury I'm just over watching these games live. It's personally annoying for me to see the Kings not meet the standard of LA teams this year. I'll continue to support your channel though 😎
Danault and Moore need to go in order for us to be a better offensive team
No Darcy No Party
Maybe Ken Holland was brought in to supervise the tear down and rebuild.
Kopitar is done, relegate him to the 4th line Doughty is slower then molasses. There time has come ……. Time for a youth transfusion ……..
Trade Moore, Danualt. Put Byfield on the trading block. His balance on skates is pathetic. Let him develop elsewhere, it’s not happening here, sad to say……
Refs said no penalty was called for the Darcy hit as it happened outside the blue. Not what I saw. Should have been reviewed.
Watching grass grow is more exciting than watching this team. If I’m not mistaken, I believe Tony Granato was head coach of the University of Wisconsin hockey team when Turcotte was there.
Kings grinding every game but the lack of a pure shooter is hurting this team. Phillip and ceci need to go.
I think the Kings' season was summed up in their response to Kuemper getting hurt. Everyone knows the team doesn't have it and everything that is done at this point is performative for Luc's last gasp at controlling the team and Kopi's last season. The best course is to get value out of all the players that still have it on the team and prepare for a rebuild; which means that the Kings are going to make a desperate costly trade and crash and burn into and throughout the offseason desperately clutching to the past and Luc pleading to AEG and the fanbase how close the Kings were to contention when they weren't even in the ballpark.
Eddie, you did a great job describing why Kuemper was removed from the game and the impact of a concussion. As far as Kuemper's status, I hate to say it but it doesn't matter. As Darryl Sutter always said, the NHL is a 3-2 league. The Kings are a 1 goal team. If you can score, you can't win. I agree with many of the other commenter s and our team is ready for a rebuild. This team has no grit. KHs signings have all disappeared. Dumolin let Ratanen skate right into Kuemper, Ceci and Perry are having zero positive impact and Aria is once a month impact player. Our top guys are also MIA and they aren't the type of players you can count on to take over a game. Sorry, those are just the facts that we have been dealt so its obviously time to switch out the deck we are playing with.
Kings are done. Byfield needs to be traded while he still has some value.
Either way the Kings have to grow a pair…
“Respect your passion and longevity, but I think part of the problem is how gently this team gets critiqued. Fans deserve honesty, not comfort. Accountability is how winning cultures are built.”
Time for a major re-do. They need to go get De Boer to coach hoping hes ready to come back. They also need to target players who are from the area so they dont leave to be near home. The name first coming to mind is Jason Robertson hes from Thousand Oaks. They need to find someone wlse o the2nd or 3rd year of their career. Right now i think VERY few of them are untradeable. They are unwatchable as the the other commenter said
Great job, Luc, you turned the Kings organization into the Columbus Blue Jackets, irrelevant.
Kumper
This team perhaps as hopless as I have seen in long long time. I love Kopi he is incredible player for 20 years but this year his game slipped a lot. Kopi makes many uncharacteristic mistakes and turnovers.
Every center is not performing thus offense is non-existent. QB literally invisible throughout the games. Only three players earning their paycheck Kempe, Fiala and Lafereyre and best player Kemper. I do not see how this team wakes up this season!! If Kemper is hurt for even a few weeks then Kings are done!!
No disrespect, Eddie, but I do not agree with your assignment. The lack of response magnifies what is wrong with this team. Perry was the only one that really seemed to have a problem with it, and that's also very telling. He's coming from teams that have made deep runs of late, and none of them would have let that go like that. Staying out of the penalty box is thrown out the window at that point. Other teams know this about the kings, and that's why they start running and injuring our players when the playoffs get close.
This team is worse than last season. I find myself falling asleep watching this boring team
They need to get rid of Karolin bathe. She puts me to sleep and doesn’t pump you up for the games like Patrick O’Neil does
Alex Turcotte, really needs to watch game film. He was caught puck watching on a goal that all centerman know to watch the weak side like a hawk. He was energetic and engaged on the boards, but you cannot miss an open player so obvious.
AEG needs to look at what Philly did in 1967 when they were the worst team in the league and had no fans anymore. They won’t, but they should.
Hiller should have been immediately held accountable after the game for no response to the Kuemper hit and injury even though it wasn't deliberate and may have been bumped into the goalie. If Hiller isn't going to do anything, the captain should have done something or said to someone on the team to run at their goalie or go after Rantanen. Yeah we all know Kopitar's personality but one of those that holds C or A should have stepped up and done something
This team is pathetic no speed ,no hitting, no toughness,no intensity,no one to muster up y
The team after hitting their best player! No response any other team would have jumped him they don’t stickup for each other what so ever!time to get a good coach and clean house! Time to get rid of the guys that don’t show a desire to win which is pretty much all of them.